Theresa May's deal on Brexit is heading for defeat in Parliament. That could lead to no deal, the negotiation of a different deal, a general election, a second referendum – or MPs swallowing the package at the second attempt.

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Britain & the EU

Before the referendum, Britain became a semi-detached member of the EU. It remained outside the euro and the Schengen zone, and became increasingly eurosceptic. Now the UK has voted to leave the club, it will have to negotiate a new relationship with the EU, the outcome of which is highly uncertain.

Can Britain, a country that plans to keep its own currency, feel comfortable in an EU that is increasingly focused on the euro and its troubles? As David Cameron’s government starts negotiations with its partners on the terms...

The final report of the CER commission on the UK and the EU single market

09 June 2014

A group of experts finds that, after leaving the EU, the UK would face an invidious choice: sign up to the single market’s rules, or suffer economic damage.In April 2016 an updated version of the report The economic consequences of leaving the EU: The final report of the CER commission on Brexit 2016 was published.

A 2013 policy brief that remains relevant today: Britons are increasingly hostile to one of the single market's four freedoms: the free movement of labour. But EU immigration makes Britain's economy stronger.